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Archives for August 2026

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
OpenAI’s enterprise revenue has reportedly surpassed its consumer revenue.

Citing an unnamed source, CNBC reported that OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said at a recent investor meeting that OpenAI “entered the year at 60-40, but enterprise has accelerated much faster than expected and those lines have now crossed … The majority of our revenue is now enterprise.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The new Gemini model is now available in AI Mode for Search.

The newly-announced Gemini 3.7 Flash is rolling out today as an option for AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers. The updated model is better at following instructions and “understanding your intent, so you get even more helpful responses,” says Search VP of product Robby Stein.

A promotional image for Gemini 3.7 Flash in Google Search’s AI Mode.
Image: Google
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Cursor is officially part of SpaceX.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX completed its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding tool Cursor on Friday. Cursor says it’s going to work on the company’s Grok AI chatbot, which added a new AI agent feature this week.

Cursor is now part of @SpaceX

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Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Google Meet has AI notetaking for in-person meetings now.

A new “take notes” button is rolling out now for paid Workspace accounts that records audio from your mic so Gemini can generate notes for in-person meetings. Just like the virtual version of the feature, it also generates a transcript and “action items” and saves them to a Google Doc in your Drive account.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Gemini Spark is now powered by Google’s upgraded Flash model.

The new Gemini 3.7 Flash makes the Spark AI agent “more efficient for knowledge work with improved tool use for Google Workspace apps, delivering improved accuracy and output quality for complex, multi-skill workflows,” Google says. The AI model itself also offers “substantial” improvements in software engineering and web development workflows, according to the company.

Google still hasn’t launched its long overdue 3.5 Pro model.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Here’s an estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll.

The end of USAID, which Elon Musk fed “into the wood chipper”, will cause an extra 14 million deaths through 2030, including 4.5 million in children under the age of 5. SpaceX shares are $141.10 as of this writing, above their IPO price of $135.

Correction: A previous version of this post referred to the journal article’s estimates as “new.” It was published in 2025.

I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human

Higgsfield is using Cully Hill Boys to show you how to prompt up your own movie.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Does Google even want to win at AI?
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Is the shakeup at Google DeepMind a strategy or a crisis?

Nilay Patel